Front Doors installed

Our front doors have been installed.

Our selection for front door are Infinity 8G at 2340MM high. These are an upgrade and also different to those available and WOS. We just went through the option on Corinthian Doors website and got pricing from Porter Davis. The total upgrade was a little over $2500 for the 2 doors including staining the doors and door jams instead of paint.

Kitchen and Bathroom Cabinets Arrived!

As the title says the kitchen and bathroom cabinets arrived yesterday 9/5/2017 and then today they were installed. Most of out benchtops are stone so they are completed later on. Now that the cabinets are in they can accurately measure the bench spaces and make the benchtops to suit. It is really good to see the spaces coming together as our home.

As I guess a lot of families do, we spend a lot of time

A reverse build? Huh, a what?

Yeah me neither. :-) I didn't know there was such a thing as a reverse build. Well at least that's how it got described to me as "sometimes we will do a reverse build".


What is it?

A reverse build is when a lot of work is completed before the bricks and lockup are completed. What it has meant for us is that on the outside we have roof tiles, windows/doors and sisalation wrap. But on the inside we have, electrical, plumbing, data, insulation, heating/AC ducts, plaster, cornices, plaster filled and sanded, stairs and soon skirting and architraves.

Stairs, Glorious Stairs!

Today I arrived onsite to have a bit of look see, expecting to see brickwork started. Instead our stairs have been installed. Our staircase is Staircase Option 2 with extended balustrade. On the master plans there is a wall/dwarf wall at the Rumpus room section of the void.

Ubiquity Networks, Cameras and Access Points

I have chosen Ubiquiti Networks hardware for our Data Network, Access Points and IP Cameras. We have the whole house wired with cat6 cable to around 30 points all leading back to the upper linen cupboard.

Cornices & Plaster finishing

About a week ago the plaster was hung then this week the plaster finishing crew were back along with the cornice installer.

The plaster finishing took about 2 to 2.5 days. They installed the internal and external corners on walls, ceiling and bulkheads. Patched all of the joints and filled all of the joints and other areas that required finishing. Sanding of the filler was done a couple of days later.

Plaster - Wow that was quick!

Plaster was installed in our house over the last couple of days. I am absolutely amazed at how quickly the plaster was hung on the walls and ceiling. It was started on Thursday 20th April and by the end of the day they had hung almost all of the plaster. All that was left to do on the Friday was a few small sections beside doors and odd places that required finishing and then the cleaning up. They do make a fair amount of mess but that's expected with the work they are doing and they had